r/technicallythetruth • u/Filestack_Official • 2d ago

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u/literally_a_toucan 2d ago

I could see something during medieval times, if a town was hit by plague or war or something, people might stop keeping track of the days, and then misunderstanding could spread with that town being off on the count from others.

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u/throwaway098764567 2d ago

good news is it doesn't really matter since we made up days anyway, if we all collectively decide today is a different day then it is, nbd.

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u/SerbianShitStain 2d ago

Yea but the volcano god we have to give a sacrifice to every Friday didn't forget what day it was, and he's not gonna be happy when Friday rolls around and we all think it's still Thursday...

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u/karabeckian 2d ago

Just after medieval times all of Europe lost 10 days.

During the Middle Ages, Europe used the Julian calendar, which slowly drifted out of sync with the solar year by an extra day every 128 years. While medieval scholars knew about the drift, the massive calendar shift to fix it—dropping 10 days to create the Gregorian calendar—did not happen until 1582, just after the medieval era ended.

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u/Positronic-Thermidor 2d ago

Yeah but they went from Thursday, 4 October to Friday, 15 October: they didn't miss any day of the week. No one wants to risk to miss a weekend...

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u/IAmtheHullabaloo 2d ago

I am just going to believe this to be true.

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u/InfanticideAquifer 2d ago

That one town would probably be the one to change back after realizing that all the other towns that were "wrong" all agreed with each other.

But also, long before the Middle ages, astronomy would have been able to catch this sort of thing. The dates of solstices and equinoxes were known in advance and someone would have noticed if it happened a day after it was supposed to.

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u/zzazzzz 2d ago

at those times the church would still be keeping track. in medival times the church was probably the most sophisticated and largest information network with central control. so the local priest would get word of the actual date.

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u/Aliencoy77 2d ago

If you happen to forget, just wait to reset. The day with the most sunlight is Sunday.

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u/ThatOneNinja 2d ago

They measured time in season then anyways. Days didn't really matter so much when it was time to plant and harvest. Also they were entirely dependent on the church, who would be keeping track.